Skip the ticket lines to enter the Hagia Sophia, the Topkapi Palace and Basilica Cistern with a local host. Benefit from an audio guide for your smartphone and discover these museums at your own pace.

About this ticket

Free cancellation: Cancel up to 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund
Covid-19 precautions: Special health and safety measures apply. Learn more
Mobile ticketing: Use your phone or print your voucher
Valid 3 days: from first activation
Skip the ticket line
Instant confirmation
Host or greeter: English

Highlights

Benefit from having a flexible ticket
Receive skip-the-ticket lines
Listen to your audio guide app
Save time and money
Discover the top attractions efficiently

Full description

After signing up for this experience, your name will be on the list for each of the monuments for 3 days. Be free to visit at the available times, gathering at the meeting points in front of the museums to skip the line with an authorized host. You can choose to visit all 3 museums in 1 day, or the three of them separately on different days. Once inside the museums, get tips on how to discover the museums in the best way. Afterward, you can stroll through the museums at your own pace as you listen to your audio guide app and explore for as long as you like. If you have any questions about the Hagia Sophia, the Topkapi Palace, the Cisterna Basilica, or Istanbul in general, please do not hesitate to ask your host.

Includes

Hagia Sophia entry
Topkapi Palace entry
Basilica Cistern entry
Audio guide app for the Hagia Sophia and Topkapi Palace in Spanish, English, German, Italian, Arabic, Polish, Russian, Chinese, and Turkish

Headphones for the audio guide app (please bring your own)

Covid-19 precautions

You must book this activity online because the ticket office is closed

Safety measures in place

All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
You must keep social distance while in vehicles
The number of visitors is limited to reduce crowds

Traveler requirements

You must bring your own headphones
You are required to bring and wear a mask

Prepare for the activity

Meeting point

Hagia Sophia and Basilica Cistern Tours Meeting Point: Meet your Istanbul Welcome Card guide (dressed in red), at the Hürrem Sultan Hamam. It is located below the trees, next to the newspaper kiosk, and across from the Hagia Sophia. Topkapi Palace Tour Meeting Point: Look for the guide dressed in red at the III Fountain of Sultan Ahmet, outside Topkapi Palace, next to the Carpet Museum.

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Important information

Know before you go

Hagia Sophia and Topkapi Palace audio guide apps are available in the following languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Polish, Chinese, and Turkish
You must download the audio guide app before your visit because there is no internet at the museum
Audio guide download instructions are contained in your confirmation
Once you downloaded the audio guide app, no internet connection is required

Customer reviews

Overall rating

3.3 /5

based on 15 reviews

Review summary

Guide
4.3/5
Value for money
3.8/5

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The great advantage of the COMBO ticket is the individual selection of the tour of the facility. The guides were very knowledgeable and friendly. The visit to the Basilica Cistern was a huge disappointment, in fact the lack of it, because the facility is closed until 10.2021. We were not informed about this fact by GYG at the time of purchasing the tickets ... Strange and unprofessional.

August 18, 2021

in reality the skip the line is not very useful because in the period in which we went (January 2020) there was not so much tourist flow, so you could easily enter with little line. however the guides that we found thanks to the purchase of the package were all very good and they accompanied us at the beginning of each journey, they explained everything to us and then they let us visit according to our times. we were satisfied.

January 19, 2020